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hello, everyone you re in the cnn newsroom where the news unfolds live this saturday, november 19th. i m fredricka whitfield. within the hour reno, nevada authorities will let some people go back home. they were evacuated because of a fast-moving wildfire. it s 65% contained. it will be a while before officials know how much damage was done. they think they know how it started. we have been able to rule out two causes. we ve been able to rule out the homeless encampment potential cause and we ve been able to rule out the possibility of teenagers that may have been in the area. we are currently working with nv energy. we believe although this has not been confirmed but we believe the cause of the fire may have been electrical arcing. on capitol hill the deficit cutting super committee has four days to come up with a plan and right now still no deal. the committee must trim more than $1 trillion from the deficit. if there s no deal there could be cuts from sfoed progr ....
in just a moment. libyan government concedes that parts of the city are no longer under its control. it says 1,300 people have been killed over the past 12 hours. a government spokesman has called for immediate negotiation and a halt to the rebel assault. the libyan rebels say some gadhafi loyalists are still holding out in the capital of tripoli. but let s go to my colleague matthew chance. he and other universities have been watching these fast-moving developments unfold at a hotel where they were. matthew, tell us what it s like where you are right now. we re worried but but set the scene. reporter: well, it s a very strange vantage point we have on this tripoli crisis. as the gun battles rage outside as crowds celebrate in some parts of tripoli, we re still confined to this hotel in the center of the city. at one point earlier this evening many of the government minders who have been assigned to us, first of all they started carrying weapons and as the evening pro ....
immediate negotiations and a halt to the rebel assault. [ chanting ] this is video from our colleagues at sky news in trip l. people on the streets chanting libya is free. gadhafi needs to go. rebel forces say they re now in control of most parts of the capital and the government itself is conceding that parts of the city are no longer under its control. it says also that 1,300 people have been killed over the past 12 hours. what about moammar gadhafi and all of this? there is so much uncertainty surrounding this situation on the ground. where are rebels now? how much of the city have they captured and where is the man who was in charge of libya for 42 years? moammar gadhafi. there was an audiomessawed audi he vowed to fight to the drop of blood. now numerous news reports out of libya security forces are surrendering. perhaps they think it s not worth the fight. the rebel fighters pushed towards tripoli after seizing the oil-rich port town of zawiya. just 30 miles d ....
japan should have taken the threat of the tsunami more seriously. a european food crisis as scientists look for the source of a deadly infection. there is anger in spain as vegetable exports are turned away. and the final endeavor. the space shuttle s last mission. we re live at the kennedy space center in florida. fifa is poised to re-elect set blater as president, the most controversial leadership vote in football s governing body. fifa ignored calls to postpone the ballot. prince william, the president of the english association, supported that call and so has the scottish association. in a stunning about turn, though, fifa vice president jack warner suspended from his duties at the weekend that a corruption investigation urged fifa members to get behind blater s bid. 24 hours later, he was saying that blatter had to be stopped. the vote is now a formality and insuring another four-year presidential term for the 75-year-old swiss. his challenge is to steer the ....
malveaux. i want to get you up to speed for friday, may 27th. secretary of state hillary clinton is in pakistan today to smooth things over with the government leaders. they are still angry over the secret u.s. raid that killed bin laden. sources say clinton told the pakistanis that american aid is on the line, unless they do more to rout out terrorists. today we discussed in even greater detail cooperation to disrupt, dismantle and defeat al qaeda and to drive them from pakistan and the region. we will do our part. and we look to the government of pakistan to take decisive steps in the days ahead. a cia forensics team will also be heading to pakistan. pakistan will let cia experts scrub osama bin laden s compound for evidence. now, the team will use sophisticated technology to look for anything hidden in the walls or the ceilings or items that are buried on the grounds. the patriot act gets a four-year extension. this was just minutes before that law was set to e ....